Senior Home Therapy Dialysis Assistant (Part Time 20 hrs p/w)

Job overview

Band 3 Senior Home Therapy Dialysis Assistant

This is a part-time post for 20 hours per week.

This post is hybrid- working within the community at the homes of patients, and also based within our Home Therapy team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital site - the service includes visiting the homes of patients across East & West Berkshire.

The majority of your time will be spent within the homes of patients providing practical support / setting up automated peritoneal dialysis (PD) machines and all the clinical care around this.

The renal replacement therapy is carried out either 4 x daily manually, or, overnight by an automated machine.

It is a life saving treatment that is required every day - the service is therefore required to run 365 days a year and so will involve some weekend / bank holiday working.

The roll involves undertaking PD related care - such as machine set ups, observations, patient weights, machine set-ups, blood taking, dialysis related dressings, stock takes.

There is some flexible working, but the care must be provided within the hours of  approximately 9am -2pm.

You must hold a current valid UK driving licence as the service is community-based and you must be able to travel the homes of patients across East & West Berkshire.

Main duties of the job

The post doesn't involve  any personal care to patients - it is dialysis-related care only.

Set up of the Automated Peritoneal dialysis.

Manual Peritoneal dialysis.

Observations / stock taking / clinical disposal of waste / dialysis related dressings.

Liaising with the trained renal team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

Blood taking.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role.